500 signatures reached
To: Ealing Town Council planning department.
SAVE EALING JAZZ CLUB where ROLLING STONES first met and played in 1962
SAVE the EALING JAZZ CLUB from demolition by developers.
Why is this important?
The EALING JAZZ CLUB is the birthplace of RHYTHM and BLUES in the UK.
It is where the Rolling Stones, The Who, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Paul Jones, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream, Eric Burden of The Animals, Long John Baldry and many more, all congregated in order to play Rhythm and Blues for the first time together.
THE CLUB IS THREATENED by development. Plans have been submitted to Ealing Town Council. These plans require the demolition of the club in order to make way for a steel and glass retail and residential complex.
The EALING JAZZ CLUB (now the "Red Room") is still much as it was in 1962 when Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner introduced The Rolling Stones to each other and where Rhythm and Blues started in this country.
Keith Richards has written in his autobiography 'Life' that: "Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner got a club going, the weekly spot at the Ealing Jazz Club..... without them there might have been nothing ".
Kansas University, USA, states that: "The EALING JAZZ CLUB deserves the same reverence in posterity as Sun Records in Memphis, the Grand Old Opry in Nashville (where Elvis Presley got his start) and the Cavern Club in Liverpool, perhaps even more so, as it's influence on the entire history of rock is so significant"
The club is iconic and irreplaceable. Its credentials contribute immensely to London's reputation as the music capital of the world. It is of enormous importance to Ealing, London, the Nation and the World, and is part of the rich musical heritage of our country.
Boris Johnson recently invited guests to a reception at City Hall, to promote music in London and to highlight the threat to small music venues by developers. He acknowledged that many have already been eradicated.
If enough of us protest against the destruction of the EALING JAZZ CLUB, we could save this iconic venue for future generations of music fans and others who gain inspiration from seeing and feeling the actual place where music history was made. If we celebrate it's status, it could become the focus for heralding and highlighting the music, film, theatre and art of Ealing, and it could become a destination attraction, encouraging tourism and more live music events.
WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS HISTORIC PLACE.
Please make your voices heard by signing this petition and please send this message on to your contacts.
If we demand it, we COULD save the EALING JAZZ CLUB from being lost to the world for ever.
Thank you.
It is where the Rolling Stones, The Who, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Paul Jones, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream, Eric Burden of The Animals, Long John Baldry and many more, all congregated in order to play Rhythm and Blues for the first time together.
THE CLUB IS THREATENED by development. Plans have been submitted to Ealing Town Council. These plans require the demolition of the club in order to make way for a steel and glass retail and residential complex.
The EALING JAZZ CLUB (now the "Red Room") is still much as it was in 1962 when Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner introduced The Rolling Stones to each other and where Rhythm and Blues started in this country.
Keith Richards has written in his autobiography 'Life' that: "Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner got a club going, the weekly spot at the Ealing Jazz Club..... without them there might have been nothing ".
Kansas University, USA, states that: "The EALING JAZZ CLUB deserves the same reverence in posterity as Sun Records in Memphis, the Grand Old Opry in Nashville (where Elvis Presley got his start) and the Cavern Club in Liverpool, perhaps even more so, as it's influence on the entire history of rock is so significant"
The club is iconic and irreplaceable. Its credentials contribute immensely to London's reputation as the music capital of the world. It is of enormous importance to Ealing, London, the Nation and the World, and is part of the rich musical heritage of our country.
Boris Johnson recently invited guests to a reception at City Hall, to promote music in London and to highlight the threat to small music venues by developers. He acknowledged that many have already been eradicated.
If enough of us protest against the destruction of the EALING JAZZ CLUB, we could save this iconic venue for future generations of music fans and others who gain inspiration from seeing and feeling the actual place where music history was made. If we celebrate it's status, it could become the focus for heralding and highlighting the music, film, theatre and art of Ealing, and it could become a destination attraction, encouraging tourism and more live music events.
WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS HISTORIC PLACE.
Please make your voices heard by signing this petition and please send this message on to your contacts.
If we demand it, we COULD save the EALING JAZZ CLUB from being lost to the world for ever.
Thank you.
